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A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742
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A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuts in Japan and China, 1542-1742. By Andrew C. Ross. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. 1994. Pp. w, 216. $34.95.)
Based principally on selected English-language secondary literature, this attempt at a "synoptic history" offers some insights about the Jesuit mission in Japan and China from the time of St. Francis Xavier to the 1742 papal bull ex quo singulari condemning the Chinese Rites. Andrew Ross, a senior lecturer on the history of missions at the Univer...
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